Eighteen die on Iowa roads in weekend crash toll
United Press International reports a deadly weekend on Iowa highways, with 18 fatalities raising the yearly toll to 599. Victims include a Sioux City couple, seven Sunday deaths, and multiple crashes near Traer, Waterloo, Bondurant, Dubuque, Story City, and Omaha. Names include Cavy Boggs, Cheryl Boggs, Betty Hoelscher, Vernon Walker, Floyd Golly, and Beulah Mallory among others. Police note stops, curves, and intersections as common factors. several drivers were hospitalized or pronounced dead shortly after.
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Iowa
Hawkeye
Sioux City
Cavy Vaughn Boggs
Cheryl Rae
Woodbury County
Thomas Corden
Boggs
Refugee influx raises Miami area Cuban settlement fears
Miami area officials, led by Governor Burns and Congressman Fascell, push for limits on Cuban refugees after Castro's open door policy. They warn 90,000 to 100,000 Cubans already in the region cannot absorb more, urging federally mandated settlement outside Florida or detention centers. Costs to educate refugee children strain Dade County, while jobs and housing fears persist as debate over how many Cubans the U.S. will accept continues.
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Fidel Castro
United States
Uncle Sam
Congress
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State Department
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U.S
Cuba
Florida Straits
George Smathers
Dfla
Haydon Burns
Florida
Dante Fascell
South Florida
Greater
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Smathers
Fascell
John Crimmins
Washington
Tallahassee
Capitol
Dade County
Greater Miami
Joe Hall
Hall
Camarioca
UPI Telephoto
Wellman man injured in one car crash near Wellman
Mike Curl twenty of Wellman was listed in fair condition at MercyHospital Iowa City after a one car crash at 1230 am Monday. The Curl auto hit a bridge five miles south of Wellman on Highway 1, and he was transported to hospital by ambulance.
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Melody Bischoff
Junction City
Kan
Atlantic Hospital
Walnut
Iowa
William P. Pederson
Bondurant
Vernon A. Walker
Virginia Walker
Rhodes
Lloyd Golly
State Center
Laverne Walker
Walker
Dubuque
Elmer Stecher
Kenneth Nemmers
la Mott
Nemmers
Iowa Highway Patrol
Ernest Glen Mobley
Guthrie Center
Panora
Dennis Alsager
Story City
U.S. 69
Mike Curl
Wellman
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
Eee. Sheriff's Office
Curl
Rites Tuesday for Vincent Schulte in Harper
Funeral services for Vincent A. Schulte 72 of Harper will be held at 10 a m Tuesday October 19 at St Elizabeth Church Harper with Rev Edward Collins officiating a Requiem High Mass Burial follows in St Elizabeth Cemetery A parish Rosary is set for 8 p m Monday at Powell Funeral Home Keota Schulte born July 4 1893 in Harper is survived by his wife Dorothy a son Robert six daughters Irma Gent Genevieve Bomber Arlene Farrell Theola Bernard and others in the family
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Vincent A. Schulte
Harper
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
St. Elizabeth Church
Edward Collins
St. Elizabeth Cemetery
Powell
Juy
Jerald
Elizabeth Jaefer Schulte
St. Elizabeth School
Dorothy Peiffer
Schulte
Robert
Francis
Irma
Leonard
Genevieve) Bomber
West Chester
Warren
Arlene) Farrell
Chicago
Bernard
Theola
Einai
Second trial begins for Klansman in Liuzzo slaying
At Lowndes County Alabama the retrial of Collie Leroy Wilkins 21 faces a new jury lineup amid security for Alabama Attorney General Richmond Flowers and protests. Prosecutors seek a fair trial while defense predicts acquittal as the judge from the first trial returns to hear the case.
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Ala
UPI
Viola Liuzzo
Collie Leroy Wilkins
Lowndes County
Haynesville
Thomas Coleman
Wilkins
Alabama
Attory
Richmond Flowers
Flowers
Arthur Hanes
Hanes
Birmingham
Wellman to receive federal planning funds
Congressman John R. Schmidhauser announced planning grants from the Housing and Home Finance Agency totaling 18700 for Wellman and West Branch in the First District. Wellman receives 6810 and West Branch 11890 for comprehensive community planning covering two thirds of total costs. Civic leaders praised the foresight and drive to improve their communities.
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Community Facilities Administration
The
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Wellman
West Branch
Schmidhauser
Wellman and
Porter elected vice president of Iowa State Clerk Association
Robert Porter, Washington County Clerk, was chosen as vice president of the State Clerk’s Association at the annual school of instruction for county officers held in Des Moines last Thursday through Saturday. He currently serves as vice president of the Southeast District and will assist in instructing new county clerks statewide and help formulate policies for presentation to the Iowa Legislature.
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Robert Porter
Washington
State Clerk’s Association
Des Maoines
Porter
Southeast District of County Officers
Iowa
Miners Perish After Deep Underground Fire
Six miners died after being trapped overnight in the Mars No. 2 coal mine near Clarksburg West Virginia rescuers found the last four bodies within an hour of locating chalk marked names on a planked post. A seventh trapped man was brought out alive Sunday night but died minutes later. rescue work covered over 30 hours.
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UPI
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Mars No. 2
Andy Kuruscz
Galloway
Isaac Moats
Moatsville
Clell Leedy
Bluefield
Robert Savage
Rosemont
Carl Banish
Lost Creek
Kenneth Kerr
Belington
Charles Lantz
Buckhannon
Leedy
Spotte
Rites Wednesday for Mrs Arthur Messer
Funeral services for Mrs. Arthur Messer 87 of Wayland will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Green Mound Church. Burial in Green Mound Cemetery. Born Elsie McPheron October 3 1878 to Alfred and Jennie McPherson. married Arthur Messer October 4 1905. Survived by husband five sons three daughters three brothers one sister and 15 grandchildren eight great grandchildren.
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Arthur Messer
Henry County Hospital
Green Mound Church
Green Mound
Zehr Funeral Home
Chester
East Pleasant Plain
Guy
Mt. Pleasant
Ernie
Perl
Richland
Harold
Olds
Allen (Blanch) Clark
Georgia Case
Yionald
Jennie) Lynn
Fred
Clinton
Dillon
Berkley
Calif
Lee
New London
Bertha Wilson
Trenton
Navy pilots hit Viet missile site
Navy pilots from USS Independence destroyed a Nike-type SAM site 52 miles northeast of Hanoi. Cmdr. Harry B. Southworth led five planes including an A-6 Intruder and four A-4 Skyhawks. They faced heavy AA gunfire but endured with no losses while observing one missile cook off and zigzag along the ground in smoke and flame.
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UPS
U.S. Navy
North Viet Nam
Harry B. Southworth
Mexico
N.Y
Independence
Hanoi
Red Capital
Photographer earns Inland award for series on Maple Grove school
Dallas Kinney of the Evening Journal won second place in the Inland Daily Press Association news picture contest in Chicago. His entry, a series of photos from Maple Grove rural school near Kalona in Washington County, earned the prize in the series division for small newspapers.
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Inland Daily Press Association
Chicago
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Washington County
Northwestern University
Medill School of Journalism
Midwestern
States
Canada
Maple Grove
Kalona
Death of Ted R. Crone 66 Former Washington Merchant and Policeman
Ted R. Crone 66 longtime Washington merchant and former city police officer died Saturday October 16 1965 at Washington County Hospital after a two year illness. He lived at 739 East Washington Street and will be buried in Elm Grove Cemetery after a Tuesday 2 p.m. funeral at Jones Funeral Home led by Rev M O Smith. Crone born January 8 1899 in Washington was a son of Thomas Sherman Crone and Lana Schilling Crone. He married Pauline Beal May 14 1925 and worked with Crane’s Grocery and Market before joining the Washington police force in December 1954 retiring later. He was a World War I veteran and member of the American Legion Washington Masonic Lodge Cyrus Chapter Zeredatha Council Bethlehem Commandery Knights Templar Iowa Association of County Soldiers Relief Commissions and Washington County Soldiers Relief Commission. He belonged to the Methodist Church. Survivors include his wife daughter Donna Yoder grandson three sisters Eva Lighthall Ina DuBois Alliene Long and brothers Victor and Charles Crone.
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Washington
Washington County Hospital
East
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Jones
Rev. M.O. Smith
Elm Grove
Mr. Crone
Thomas Sherman
Lana Schilling Crone
Pauline Beal
Crane’s
Washington Police Force
American Legion
Washington Masonic Lodge
Cyrus Chapter
Zeredatha Council
Bethlehem Commandery
Knights Templer
Iowa Association of County Soldiers Relief Commissions
Washington County
Pacifist Miller Arrested for Draft Card Burning Protest
FBI agents arrest 22 year old pacifist David J. Miller on charges of burning his draft card at a New York protest against U.S. Viet Nam policy. Miller, former Lemoyne College student from Syracuse, failed to produce Selective Service papers in Hooksett New Hampshire and faced federal indictment under the new law.
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UPI
FBI
David J. Miller
New York
U.S
Viet Nam
Justice Department
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Hooksett
N.H
J. Edgar Hoover
Perond
Congress
Draft Board
Cou
New York City
Hoover
Lemoyne College
Syracuse
N.Y
Johnson Worried About Viet Nam Demonstrations
President Johnson is deeply concerned that antiwar demonstrations could be misread by adversaries as reflecting U S policy. White House spokesman Moyers said Moyers spoke with Atty Gen Katzenbach about investigating possible Communist involvement and aims to conclude the inquiry quickly. Katzenbach phoned the President at Bethesda Naval Hospital to report on the probe.
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UPI
Johnson
U.S
Viet Nam
White House
Bill D. Moyers
Atty
Nicholas Katzenbach
Moyers
Katzenbach
Justice Department
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Weather Central Cloudiness and Showers Across Regions
Increasing clouds east and mostly cloudy with occasional showers or thunder showers west tonight and over state Tuesday. Cooler. Low tonight 50s northwest to 60s southeast. High Tuesday 60s northwest to 70s southeast.
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